Forteania

A seemingly universal human trait is the fear of death. To some extent we all find ways to deal with the reality that one day, the life we live now, will come to an end. Historically, man has cr...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/05/immortals-among-us.html

My daily commute takes me straight through downtown Bishopville, SC. If that name sounds familiar to you don’t be surprised. The town was made famous, more or less, back in 1988 with the alleg...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/05/abominable-chicken-man.html

In August of 1901, two Englishwomen, Annie Moberly and her colleague Dr. Eleanor Frances Jourdain, were on a trip visiting Paris. The first stop on their tour was the capital. After a short visi...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/slips-in-time.html

Few things in the world of the paranormal creep me out more than haunted dolls. Granted, giant killer rabbits are actually my number one fear, but haunted dolls are a close second. Maybe it’s ...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/haunted-dolls.html

The alien abduction phenomena is a tricky, tricky, thing. There are a variety of different proposed explanations for alien abductions. Many feel that they are completely fabricated events within...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-abduction-of-pier-fortunato.html

Stories of humanoid encounters are easily a guilty pleasure of mine. I have written on a number of occasions on this blog about the variety of strange tales of human interactions with non-human,...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-valensole-incident.html

I consider myself to be a fairly skeptical guy. Granted, I tend to take most paranormal encounter stories at face value.I generally believe that people have had an experience which is meaningful...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/mystery-of-black-stick-men.html

The idea that someone, or something, has invaded the sanctity of your house or bedroom is probably the epitome of nightmare fuel. Thankfully I’ve never had this kind of experience. Coincidenta...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-elusive-shadow-people.html

Demonic possession is a fascinating topic for me. To be honest, I feel a bit out of my element when it comes to this topic. I’m agnostic about religion much like I am most things in this world...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-enigma-of-demonic-possession.html

One of the first books I purchased from the paranormal field was Brad Steiger’s The Werewolf Book . (Technically I purchased an earlier version, the amazon link there is to the latest edition)...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/beast-of-gevaudan.html

While thumbing through one of my paranormal books the other night, I came across a familiar story. A group of sheep farmers were upset because something was attacking and killing their livestock...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/19th-century-chupacabras.html

One of Charles Fort’s books which I haven’t spent a lot of time with in the past is his final one; Wild Talents. In this work, Fort collects reports and accounts of human beings with occult ...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/charles-forts-x-men.html

A good portion of my childhood, and most of the origins for my interest in paranormal/fortean topics, stems from The X-Files. So most weekends while doing homework, I have the show on in the bac...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/high-strangeness-and-ufos.html

That the UFO enigma didn’t start in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold’s Mt. Rainier sighting is fairly obvious to anyone who has read any UFO literature. The same, or very similar, phenomena has take...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/airships-and-secret-inventors.html

In the long, varied, history of the paranormal there have been a wide menagerie of strange creatures and humanoids sighted. From hairy dwarves to “michelin men” and just about everything in ...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/04/you-dont-know-jack.html

Probably because I’m a huge fan of Spiderman, I was interested in photography from an early age. At one point I had even considered a career in photography, until I realized how bad I am at co...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/thoughtography.html

I was skimming back through my copy of Fort’s The Book of the Damned as I often do, when I happened upon another fascinating phenomena which Fort describes and, in his unique humorist way, th...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/water-water-everywhere.html

Although Charles Fort’s books were obviously highly influential in developing not only my theories on various paranormal topics, but also how I look at and interpret reality in general, I woul...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-case-of-indrid-cold.html

Stories of poltergeist activity have been an interest of mine, perhaps more so than other kinds of alleged “hauntings”. This stems mostly from some of the evident peculiarities and similarit...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/enfield-poltergeist.html

As anyone who has visited this blog in the past is likely aware, I’m a fan of alternative theories. Usually the more out there, the better! With this in mind I want to take a look at the old-f...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/atmospheric-lifeforms.html

Stories of encounters with extraterrestrials are just about a dime a dozen in Ufological literature. Persons have come into contact with these ET’s outside of their craft, in the woods, out in...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/alien-contact-in-human-places.html

As a kid I was extremely fascinated by Dinosaurs and read voraciously on the topic. Every book on the topic I could find I would read. At one point I even thought I would grow up to be a Paleont...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/living-dinosaurs_21.html

The further in time we are from when an event occurred, the easier it is to write it off as fictional or exaggerated. I suppose this is do to some underlying assumption that people of the past, ...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/devils-footprints.html

I’ve been getting back into the habit of more regular updates here at Forteania and as such I’ve been racking my brain to dislodge various paranormal topics which I haven’t really dealt wi...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/et-pen-pals.html

Personal encounters are interesting to me even if they are not helpful from any kind of scientific standpoint. At the end of the day, all we really have are the stories which people share. The h...

http://forteania.blogspot.com/2014/03/fairy-tales.html